The Boim Chapel (Ukrainian: Капли́ця Боїмів, Polish: Kaplica Boimów) is a monument of religious architecture in Cathedral Square, Lviv, Ukraine.
The chapel was built for the Boim family on the territory of a contemporary urban cemetery near the Latin Cathedral.
[3] He followed a simplified diagram of the architecture of the Sigismund's Chapel at the Wawel Cathedral in Kraków with Italians' elements.
In the second half of the 18th century, the chapel was replaced by the Lviv cemetery as a burial place for the Boim family.
The narrative reliefs bear some degree of resemblance to those found in central and southern Poland, but are presumably based on German or Dutch graphic models.
[2] The quality of the design and the lack of moderation persists in Kraków active works of Italian masters, but acting example of bourgeois art.
The chapel was built on a square plan and is covered by a paneled dome based on an octagonal tambour.
On the chapel lantern rises on eight fluted pilasters with Corinthian capitals, covered again with a small dome, having a statue of Christ on top.
The eastern wall is divided by five pilasters and decorated with two mural portraits of Georgy Boim and his wife, Jadwiga.
The interior of the chapel includes four stone figures of prophets, located in the altar, which resembles some images on frieze.
This framing consists of a flat – convex brass motifs and medallions with heads of angels, the same type as on the frieze external.